Bhopal: State Cabinet in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday approved the draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, taking a significant step towards introducing a common civil law framework in the state. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav was held at Chaman Mahal in Jagdishpur. The entire cabinet led by the chief minister boarded an electric bus and officers another electric bus to reach the venue. The state government is expected to introduce the bill during the Assembly’s monsoon session beginning Monday. According to the government, the draft legislation has been prepared after an extensive study of the…
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Bhopal: A heavy police force was deployed in Professor’s Colony and Banganga area of the state capital on Friday (July 17, 2926) as a good number of women and others from these localities took to the streets to protest against shifting of a liquor shop to a place which is in the vicinity of their localities. The place is in the vicinity of Lok Bhavan ( earlier known as Raj Bhavan) and the state capital’s cultural activities hub Ravindra Bhavan also. The liquor shop shifting took the residents of the locality by surprise as it was unimaginable for the residents…
Innocence at Risk: Protecting Children in the Age of Algorithms examines how childhood is being transformed by digital technologies and how families, schools, institutions, governments, and technology platforms can respond to emerging risks. The book is authored by Aishwarya Srivastava, a lawyer who graduated from the National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal, and practices before the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court and certain tribunals besides serving as a panel counsel for the Central Government and Dr Shailendra Srivastava who is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1986 batch, Madhya Pradesh cadre, who served as Director General…
Bhopal: Every day, millions of people around the world interact with Google without ever realizing that a piece of its intelligence was shaped by a young man from Bhopal. Anurag Goyal’s journey from studying Engineering at the Technocrats Institute of Technology (TIT) to leading critical product design initiatives at Google’s global headquarters in Mountain View, California, is a powerful reminder of where curiosity can take you. Driven by a passion for how humans interact with technology, Anurag moved to the US to pursue a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, setting off a rewarding career transition from front-end engineering to elite…
Bhopal: Supporters of former Madhya Pradesh Home minister Narottam Mishra in Datia, mainly BJP workers, see a conspiracy of the BJP leadership in Madhya Pradesh in denial of party ticket to Mishra for the by-election Datia assembly constituency is going to witness. Nomination papers for the by-election as announced by Election Commission of India (ECI) on July 6 will be filed by July 13 and polling will be held on July 30. Counting of votes will take place on August 3, as per notification issued by ECI. The former Home minister who became active again while meeting with different sections…
Bhopal: Alarmed over Madhya Pradesh government’s move to privatise as many as 18 community health centres (CHCs) in the state public health experts, professionals and workers have joined hands to protest against the same demanding immediate rollback of the decision. These CHCs, 18 in number, fall in three districts Rewa, Dewas and Guna, according to public health experts Dr Rakesh Malviya and Amulya Nidhi. Rewa is hometown of MP’s health minister Rajendra Shukla while Guna happens to be the parliamentary constituency of union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. According to Dr Malviya and Nidhi recently various health and people’s organizations associated with…
Bhopal: Sometimes in politics, a few brief words can do what a lengthy statement cannot: trigger a full-blown political war. This is exactly what happened on Sunday when Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal pointedly asked the BJP’s new national president, Nitin Nabin, “Who are you?” The sharp, satirical jibe from Kejriwal came in response to a post shared by the BJP on X (formerly Twitter). In that post, Nabin had criticized Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, and Kejriwal regarding allegations of donation theft (chanda chori) linked to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/2073754670590288358 Kejriwal’s dismissive retort quickly sparked a…
Bhopal: Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), India has expressed serious concern over the findings of the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin released by the Office of the Registrar General of India. The report, says JSA India, shows that despite improvements in national health indicators, major inequalities continue across states, especially in infant mortality and maternal-child health outcomes. According to the SRS Bulletin, India’s infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined to 24 per 1000 live births. However, the burden remains alarmingly high in several states. Chhattisgarh recorded the highest IMR in the country at 36, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya…
Bhopal: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was talking of women empowerment merely 10 days back but on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) rape convict Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh was released from the jail he was lodged in yet another time on parole granted by the state’s “competent authority”. This happens to be the 16th parole granted to this controversial godman by Haryana government in the last more than five years since October 2020. Gurmeet Ram Rahim has been undergoing sentence of 20 years for raping two woman disciples, ten years each for the two counts of rape charges, since August…
Bhopal: On a day when Madhya Pradesh was celebrating its cheetah conservation success story there came a major setback to its Project Cheetah when as many as four cubs of female cheetah (KGP-12) were found dead near a den in Sheopur’s Kuno National Park on Tuesday (May 12, 2026) morning. The state government in its official release shared the information regarding death of the one-month-old cubs who were being monitored without interference and were seen alive till Monday evening, as per an official press release from Madhya Pradesh government. As per the official information, a monitoring team discovered the four…